Bloviating
on ‘The View’ Whoopie said, “I know it wasn’t
rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe
it was rape-rape.” WHAT!?!? Are her corn rows too tight? Is she
out of her flipping mind? What la-la land classification of rape or
the most basic etymological definition is unclear? “Rape-rape”?
That exceeds even the epically arrogant parsing of what the word “is
is” by Bill Clinton. BULLFEATHERS!

How
could she possibly know what happened to an impressionable 13-year old
at the hands of a powerful Hollywood director three decades ago? Her
pretension and presumption exceeds just ego and celebrity entitlement
it sets a new lofty standard for relativism and denigrates all women.

Polanski
was a 40-something Hollywood big shot living large when he manipulated
and coerced a 13-year old girl to a movie star’s house where he
plied her with drugs and alcohol so he could seduce her. When the child
resisted his sexual advances, he forced her into sexual activities against
her will. He raped her! It is not ‘alleged’ he raped her…he
admitted it.

His
French lawyer claims, "There is no reason, either in law or in
fact, nor on the terrain of the most elementary justice, to keep Roman
Polanski in prison for even one day," Herve Temime told reporters.
WRONG!

You
damnbetcha there are rock solid reasons for keeping Polanski’s
pampered butt in prison. First, violated plea bargains notwithstanding,
he raped a child. Second, and arguably as compelling,
he not only fled justice from the crime thirty years
ago, he remains the poster boy for “flight risk”. If any
weak kneed intimidated Swiss judge were ever to grant Polanski bail,
he would book out of Dodge quicker than a DJ could cue up ‘Leaving
on a Jet Plane’.

As
Estrich noted, “Roman the rapist pleaded guilty. This is not one
of those stories where you need to insert an ‘alleged’ or
a ‘purported’ before each sentence. This is not a ‘he
said-she said.’ He was in his 40s. She was 13. He was a famous
director. She was a child. He lied, lured, and plied her with drugs
and alcohol.”

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For
the past 30 years, the diminutive director/convicted rapist has been
living and working luxuriously in Europe as a fugitive from justice.

Polanski
is a convicted rapist. Rape has gone morphed legally from a
capital crime to a felony to a misdemeanor to a “crime against
humanity.”

•
80,000 women were raped by Japanese soldiers during the six weeks of
the Nanking Massacre.• According to a British scholar at the end of
World War II, Red Army soldiers are estimated to have raped around 2,000,000
German women and girls. • Reportedly, an estimated 200,000 women were
raped during the Bangladesh Liberation War by the Pakistani army.• At least 20,000 Bosnian Muslim women were raped
by Serb forces during the Bosnian War.• It is estimated that more than 200,000 females
living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today have been raped
in recent conflicts.• Some 500,000 women were raped during the Rwandan
Genocide.

In
any of the above atrocities do you thin Whoopie would question if it
was “rape-rape”?

The
Rome Statute, which defines the jurisdiction of the International Criminal
Court, recognizes rape as crime against humanity if the action is part
of a widespread or systematic practice. Gee, does the systemic use of
the “casting couch” qualify as a systematic practice?

Despite
the desperate efforts of entertainment industry idiots struggling to
justify, rationalize and qualify Polanksi’s reprehensible crime
with babbling bromides about his artistic body of work, that dog don’t
hunt.

Rape
is never justifiable. It is more than sexual assault. It is a violent
crime and specifically (in this case) an abuse of power, prestige and
influence.

Charles
Caleb Colon once observed, “He that is good, will infallibly become
better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice,
virtue and time are three things that never stand still.”

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If
Polanski were to be granted a pass on his atrocity, it enables all petty,
venial, self important, selfish would be abusers of power and position
and would grant license to future rapists (as long as they had acquired
money, power and prestige). P.J. O’Rourke said, “Giving
money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.” The same can be said for celebrity spoiled brats.

Polanski
deserves another day in court. Every effort should be employed to guarantee
that happens.

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